User talk:Toussaint/Archive 1

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You seem to have figured your way around pretty well, but I thought I'd include these links for you. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your contributions to the Caribbean portal. All the best. Guettarda 7 July 2005 14:04 (UTC)

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Sources for Paul Denis

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tell me what you think

I've tried to improve the Haitian elections, 2006 page. I think it's starting to look like a quality article. I want to add information for several of the other candidates so I'm going to work on that this week and this weekend. I also have been trying to add lots of sources from newspaper articles and such, think that's coming together good as well. Right now the article looks pretty good, if I do say so, but hopefully we can figure out a way to make it longer and more in depth. I have trouble finding information about the actual issues of the campaign and such. I'm not sure if you're Haitian and possibly speak Creole and/or french. Not sure if there is more information in those languages or not. Just wanted to get your thoughts on the page thus far. --MateoP 03:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

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Regarding edits made during August 24 2006

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• • It is NOT my website. Furthermore, it is a noted external gathering place for users of Youtube. Toussaint 12:44 PM, 25 August 2006 (EST)

YoutubeTalk link, part 2

I've already responded with the assertion that the link is NOT spam, and I stand by that assertion. It's even cited on the Emmalina article, if you'd so kindly look. I request an explanation for your second deletion of the link from Youtube#External Links, or at least a suitable rebuttal to my assertion of the necessity for that link. Thank You. --Toussaint 13:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, you know more than I do on this, so add it back in. I won't remove it again. —Mets501 (talk) 13:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Farm issues, user page

Hi Toussaint,

Thanks for your help in keeping my user page clean!

Let me just mention that I'm not actually a farmer. My description of myself as a white South African living on a commercial farm is correct, but I actually rent a flat on a farm; I don't work there. --Slashme 09:17, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

ZA blogosphere

Yep, most ZA bloggers are white, and I'm not really into blogs, so I don't know who's who. Google gave me a link to Sipetile's blog:

http://sipetile.blogspot.com/2006/09/black-on-black-hate.html

She's quite well-spoken, and seems to be a web designer or some such. --Slashme 09:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Farid Esack

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Friendly intervention

Toussaint, I hope you don't mind my intrusive editing of your email addresses. It is intended to keep them from becoming continual prey to spambots.

I'm a former resident of Perry, Georgia who worked at the Houston Home Journal, a couple years before you were born. I remember the Oglethorpe campus pretty well from a few visits; it's a beautiful place. Best of luck to you, and thanks for your attention to detail, e.g. in Houston County articles. -- Rob C (Alarob) 22:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. After posting this I saw the notice about the Farid Esack article. I've read one of his books and learned a thing or two about him, so went and wrote a new article. Hope it makes the cut. -- Rob C (Alarob) 00:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Portals

I noticed that you are trying to make all portals look the same by applying the same box to all of them. While it's essentially not a terrible idea, but the color you used is very awkward. Red 1px border with blue background? It does not make sense at all, and looks very disturbing in some portals.

If you are doing this to one specific portal, it's perfectly fine. But doing it to every portals? You need to consult with some other people then. Please go to Wikipedia talk:Portal and discuss your idea.

Please use edit summary for most of the time... Oh, and those aren't not minor edits also. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 01:44, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I am extremely angry because as the maintainer of Turkey Portal I wa sNOT asked about this layout change and it looked xtremely UGLY, red and BLUE together?? Please in the future leave the portal alone, it looks fine as it is now, no need to change the layout, sp. not for the worse... Thank you for NOT touching it anymore. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 14:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

GNU template

While I appreciate the template itself, I am not so sure that it belongs on all of these Unix commands: Time (Unix)‎, gzip, grep, and cpio. These commands pre-date the GNU software by quite some time. --Unixguy 15:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

edit summaries

Hi Toussaint,

please start using edit summaries. Thank you --MarSch 09:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

hinduism

Welcome to WikiProject Hinduism

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--D-Boy 20:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Atlanta Portals

Hey there. I noticed that both {{Portal:Atlanta}} and {{Portal:Atlanta, Georgia}} have gone unedited since they were started about 2 months ago. I was planning on nominating them for deletion, but I wanted to approach you first, to ask if you had any plans to take up both projects again. If they are to be improved, they should be combined into one portal. Thanks. Runnerupnj 01:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

• Yeah, I created the {{Portal:Atlanta}} one a while back, but then I forgot that the Atlanta, Georgia article wouldn't recognize that {{portal}}, only one that was named exactly after the article itself. So I created {{Portal:Atlanta, Georgia}} as a replacement. You can go ahead and delete {{Portal:Atlanta}}, but I'll try to add some more stuff to the {{Portal:Atlanta, Georgia}}, even though I'm at a loss of ideas right now. Thanks. --Toussaint 06:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually, the template just needed to be changed to {{Portal|Atlanta}}. I've gone ahead and made this change and redirected all the pages at {{Portal:Atlanta, Georgia}} to the corresponding pages at {{Portal:Atlanta}}. --- RockMFR 04:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

UNA flag?

Is the UNA flag reprsentive of WP:AFRO I changed the image in your wonderful new template... is that okay? If you think it makes more sense to use the flag I'll change it back. Thanks for making this template! It's great! futurebird 20:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi, Toussaint, and welcome to WikiProject Africa! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles relevant to Africa. Here are some points that may be helpful: Our main aim is to help improve Africa-related articles, so if people ask for help with an article, please try your hardest to help them if you are able. Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it. The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, which you are welcome to participate. If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign Africa topics. You may also be interested in joining one of the descendant projects related to a specific African country. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We hope you enjoy working on this project.

— Emiellaiendiay 03:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Canada topic

I made a couple of changes because using "the" (in this case) with "Northwest Territories" caused a redirect. I also changed "Dependencies and other territories" as it appeared a little odd and doesn't really explain to the reader what the Canadian provinces and territories are. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:CapeVerde-InfoBox

Hi Harry,
Just wondering what prompted you to create the above rather than retain the {{Infobox Country or territory}} within the Cape Verde article...?  Thanks for any insight, David Kernow (talk) 07:04, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
PS If it's to remain, I suggest renaming it {{Infobox Cape Verde}} for the sake of consistency, category indexing and the like.

Hi there, I tried to change the national emblem of Cape Verde at the article Template:CapeVerde-InfoBox, but it is locked. Could you please change that image to Image:COA of Cape Verde.svg? Thanks! --Tonyjeff 15:04, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I've already seen quite a few of them, I guess its for a better editing view of the article, rather than having to scroll down a bit until you get to the article's primary contents...

• Now you mention it, I realize I've also seen the same in some ethnic group articles... and I also agree that the space used when calling {{Infobox Country or territory}} or the like can be daunting. Is there any support/consensus for using the {{Infobox Cape Verde}} approach for all country/territory articles...?  If so, {{Infobox Country or territory}} now includes "view · talk · edit" links below its footnotes area, so maybe these links could lead to {{Infobox country name}} rather than {{Infobox Country or territory}} itself. What do you think...?

So far as I can tell, the cascading option doesn't now seem to be switched on for {{CapeVerde-InfoBox}}, {{Infobox Cape Verde}} or {tl|Infobox Country or territory}} itself, so I hope this means the problem has been resolved. Now that {{Infobox Cape Verde}} exists, shall I delete {{CapeVerde-InfoBox}}...?  Regards, David (talk) 02:54, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding edits made to Métis people (USA)

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Regarding Template:SAVices

Hi. Thanks for a great job, but I'm slightly confused: why did you decide to combine Deputy President, Vice President and Prime Minister into 1 infobox? -- Chris Lester ^talk 19:15, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Georgia

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Copyright violations

You appear to have copied the "Media in ..." (African countries) articles verbatim from the BBC website. This is a copyright violation and is not allowed. If, on the other hand, they have copied from us, please let an admin know so that the pages can be restored and the BBC contacted. --kingboyk 11:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the reply. The articles in question were deleted as they were pretty much word for word matches of the BBC articles, they were also very old. It's possible you copied them at the time not knowing our policies; it's also possible of course that the BBC copied them from us and didn't give credit! The articles I deleted were Media in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Media in Ghana, Media in Uganda, and Media in Kenya. If you don't remember whether you wrote these yourselves or copied them, I can give you temporary copies so you can check. Thanks again. --kingboyk 12:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Faces of Death (album)

1. Try to keep your edit summaries civil.
2. The article had a {{notability}} template on it for a month, and no-one offered any reason for the album being significant. If you think that it is, then please do more than simply recreate it (with the giveaway "The album sold 1,234 copies." — in what sense can that be significant?). --Mel Etitis (Talk) 18:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

AGR Web Solutions

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internet

Your internet article contributions are welcome, but I think you are overdoing it. Too much OR, and WP is not a catalogue. There is no need to list what each ISP offers. Please remove the multiple offerings and pricing on all the articles. Even if it were relevant, no one can be expected to keep updating these figures which are outdated tomorrow by dynamic competition. While it is interesting to compare offerings, in six months, whoever is providing 1m or 2m download is also not relevant. Thanks --Shuki 18:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I only moved the respective sections from Broadband Internet access worldwide into separate, "Internet in" articles. Apart from those sections, there isn't that much that I can find on Internet in most of these countries, since there aren't that many in-depth articles on the web which cover the usage of the Internet in these countries, or famous websites/forums/bloggers/ISPs/wikis which were launched in these countries. I think reorganizing and cleaning up these articles are the type of work more suited for an entire Wikiproject. --Toussaint 23:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for pointing out the original article. Wow, someone must have spent a lot of time on that. --Shuki 08:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. I didn't create that article, or the continental spinoffs (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania), but the lengths of those spinoffs were all insane. Most of the larger sections in these sections desperately need to be spun off; but the way that the new articles come out (after being copy-pasted) show how lacking they are in anything substantial. These articles need help.

Plus, I started working on these articles because someone created an article on Internet in the PRC; that's what I'm mostly going off of.

--Toussaint 14:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Please never move articles via cut and paste, and never move out sections without indicating the original article. This is a violation of the GNU FDL, because you are appearing (involuntarily, of course) as the sole author of the newly created authors in the edit history. To avoid this, at least add a remark like "copied from Broadband Internet access in the Americas" in the edit comment of the initial version. Better still, name also the editors who created the text in the first place. See also WP:CUTPASTE. Regards, High on a tree 14:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Computer Science

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Adobe-related templates

I noticed that you recently created and blanked the page Category:Adobe-related templates. Is this category going to be used? If not, may I put it up for speedy deletion (WP:CSD#G6)? -- kenb215 talk 03:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, go ahead. I switched to Category:Adobe Systems-related templates. --Toussaint 13:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

UGA Navbox

Glad you liked our navbox enough to copy it exactly :) The title is a bit hard to read, unfortunately. I'd also like to point out that the athletic seasons part is incomplete; see {{GeorgiaFootballSeasons}} for a comprehensive list of existing UGA athletic season pages. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 17:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

SA District navboxes

I really like the South African district navboxes you are creating. Can I ask where you are getting the lists of towns for each district? Thanks, htonl 14:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

PS: not because I think there's anything wrong with them, by the way! I'm just looking for that data for a project of my own. htonl 14:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah! I have actually found a reliable source for lists of towns. Go to [1], then select a municipality from the drop-down boxes (it has to be a local municipality, and unfortunately the combo boxes only work in Internet Explorer) and select "Locational Information". It has the "official" list of communities (inasmuch as any official list exists). I'm going through and updating the templates from that info. By the way, what would you think of changing the second title to "Communities" instead of "Cities and towns"? After all, the top of the template says "Municipalities and Communities of XXX District Municipality". - htonl 16:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Template:Robot Chicken episode

Thanks for the above!! I've finished one special Star Wars (Robot Chicken Episode), and hopefully sometime in the near future I'll be finishing the other Christmas Special (Robot Chicken Episode). I'm really horrible with navboxes and don't want to screw this one up. Could you be so kind as to add these two to the bottom (probably under season 3) or wherever you see fit!SkierRMH 06:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Sheridan Stage School

An article that you have been involved in editing, Sheridan Stage School, has been listed by me for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheridan Stage School. Thank you. -- simxp (talk) 07:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:Elections in Edmonton and Template:Edmonton elections

Thanks for creating these - I've started incorporating them into all the Edmonton election articles I'm writing.Sarcasticidealist 19:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Headers

Is there a reason behind adding "Succession" and "Navigation" headers to articles. As far as I know, this would be a major change in the WP:MOS for articles. Is this being discussed somewhere? - auburnpilot talk 23:45, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

It's because most of these articles possess widely-various lengths of template (both succession and navigation-type) addition. To add an increasing number of them to the "External Links" section doesn't, IMO, suit the purpose of these templates, which is to help the user navigate between articles within Wikipedia, not out to other websites. So...why are we putting navigatory templates i the "external Links" section again? --Toussaint 23:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

My understanding is that these templates are not necessarily included within the external link section, but are basically below the external links section, just as a {{stub}} template wouldn't have its own section. As these templates, categories, and succession boxes are not part of the article's content, they do not have headers. It might be wise to bring this up on a relevant policy talk page/village pump before rolling it out in mass. - auburnpilot talk 00:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

And just for clarification, the Guide to layout states these boxes should be placed "at the very end of the article, following the last appendix section, but preceding the "categories and interwiki links", not in their own heading. - auburnpilot talk 00:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding these sections and remove those you've added. They are contrary to the style recommendations. --cj | talk 02:08, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Never mind about removing them. Several users have done that for you.--cj | talk 02:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Then take it up at WP:GTL, rather than introducing a non-standard format haphazardly.--cj | talk 03:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Please try and always use edit summaries

I have noticed that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! Goodnightmush^Talk 11:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Toussaint, I often forgot to use an edit summary, until I found the Special:Preferences Editing option to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary". Other than that: Many people do rarely use edit summaries, others use them to insult each other. Even some vandals have found out about the weight they're given and use edit summaries like "minor rewording" when blanking an article. —AldeBaer 21:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:AbiaGovernors

Template:AbiaGovernors has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Balloonguy 18:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For outstanding commitment to the creation of useful templates where none previously existed, I hereby award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Sarcasticidealist 00:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Perfect (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

Hi! You recently added a section with the heading Signfigance to this article, which makes claims without citing sources or attributing statements. I was wondering if you could provide a source for this? Lucky number 49 15:33, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

If you can't provide a source other than yourself for the section, I'm afraid that it's original research and/or not presenting a neutral POV; and the section may be subject to deletion, unless you can cite a reputable source discussing the matter. Lucky number 49 22:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Furry

Looking for something to do? WikiProject Furry is improving articles on furry and anthropomorphic topics, and we'd like to have you on board. Our current goal is to raise Anthrocon, furry convention and furry fandom to good article status and beyond - but if that doesn't take your fancy, there are plenty of other articles to work on. Give it a go and let us know how you're doing! You received this one-time invitation because you are a Furry Wikipedian. GreenReaper 23:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

The Editor's Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I noticed that your edits were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Editor's Barnstar for your amazing work on political related articles! Wikidudeman (talk) 20:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Malcolm X

Hello. I read Perry when it was published, and it was criticized at the time for its sensationalism. On the other hand, I think Perry interviewed more of Malcolm's friends and associates than any biographer before or since, so his account — despite its sensationalism — may be accurate. See my discussion at Talk:Malcolm X#Sexuality.

The more important question, though, is whether questions of Malcolm's sexual experiences before he became a public figure are of any relevance to an encyclopedia article about him. Does it matter if George W. Bush was a compulsive masturbater as a teenager and young man? If Mahatma Ghandi ate a steak when he was 21?

Please review WP:Undue Weight. "Just as giving undue weight to a viewpoint is not neutral, so is giving undue weight to other verifiable and sourced statements. An article should not give undue weight to any aspects of the subject, but should strive to treat each aspect with a weight appropriate to its significance to the subject. Note that undue weight can be given in several ways, including, but not limited to, depth of detail, quantity of text, prominence of placement, and juxtaposition of statements."

I had read Tatchell's column before, but I hadn't seen Akinti's response. Thank you for pointing it out. Unlike Akinti, I don't think allegations that Malcolm may have been gay sully his reputation — although (unfortunately) I think his views are widespread. I hope that my comments here and at the article's Talk page make that clear.

In any event, if you feel that Perry's allegations about Malcolm's sexual experiences are relevant, put them back in the article, but let's also continue this discussion at Talk:Malcolm X#Sexuality, where other editors can participate. Thanks. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 16:17, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:JapanGovernors

Hello

I wonder what the abbreviations after each governor in Template:JapanGovernors stands for? --Jonte-- 15:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 05:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

SVG and related.

Hi, just to let you know that I have proposed that server-side SVG, SVG animation and SVG filter effect be deleted, this web of SVG related articles was much harder to navigate than one article at Scalable Vector Graphics. Conrad.Irwin 10:16, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Dear Toussaint I appreciate that you aare editing articles about politics but you've disturbed me really badly! All my work has been deleted because of your interuption :((( —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gegelia (talk • contribs) 22:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Kenji Nagai

A tag has been placed on Kenji Nagai, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia per CSD a7.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. Bmg916^Speak 17:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh My Goddess!

A goddess descends to your talk page

Hi, I noticed your username appears on this category and would like to invite you to take part in a general improvement drive on all articles relevant to Oh My Goddess! including character articles, episode articles and others. -- Cat ^chi? 21:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Hibiscus Coast Local Municipality

Question: what exactly is this list? In other words, if it isn't obvious from the title, you should put in a sentence telling what the list contains, for clarity. Biruitorul 22:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Biruitorul 00:01, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of David A. Perdue Elementary School

David A. Perdue Elementary School, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that David A. Perdue Elementary School satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David A. Perdue Elementary School and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of David A. Perdue Elementary School during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Phgao 15:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello, sorry to do this to you, but primary schools are not notable in themselves, and Wikipedia is not a directory for these schools. You can access the other AfDs from the info box on any one of the schools. Thanks and I hope you don't take this badly; but you will note that the high schools were left, as most high schools are notable. Phgao 15:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of the page. Oo7565 19:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Bloemfontein

Hi, I just noticed that a template you created, Template:Infobox Bloemfontein, is unused and appears to be abandoned. I've marked it as deprecated, meaning it'll be deleted in two weeks' time if nobody objects. If there's a reason to keep it please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Deprecated and orphaned templates and feel free to remove the {{deprecated}} tag from the template. Thanks. Bryan Derksen 09:26, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Steve Jobs

Template:Steve Jobs has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. szyslak 12:42, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

List of U.S. states which do not border another country or an oceanic body

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article List of U.S. states which do not border another country or an oceanic body, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of the page. Powers ^T 20:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of U.S. states which do not border another country or an oceanic body

An article that you have been involved in editing, List of U.S. states which do not border another country or an oceanic body, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of U.S. states which do not border another country or an oceanic body. Thank you. Powers ^T 03:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Zoopy

Zoopy, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Zoopy satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zoopy and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Zoopy during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:29, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

List of the oldest currently-registered Internet domain names

A tag has been placed on List of the oldest currently-registered Internet domain names, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. —Caesura^(t) 01:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

French legislative districts

Thankyou for all the work you have done on the page User:Jammydodger/List of French legislative districts. It has saved me a lot of work, and allows us to start getting onto the individual district pages.

Regards, --Jammydodger (talk) 12:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Lakshmi Tatma

An article that you have been involved in editing, Lakshmi Tatma, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakshmi Tatma. Thank you.IslaamMaged126 19:36, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Seattle Government

Could you please see my question at Template talk:Seattle Government, since the template seems to be your doing? I haven't worked on things like this, so I don't know its intended scope, but there are two things I'd be inclined to add. - Jmabel | Talk 20:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

note

just thought i'd give you a thumbs-up for this edit [2]. small, but to the point. cheers. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 15:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Lakshmi Tatma

I'm sorry,but a page you have been involved in editing or have created has been deleted.The reason is :The AFD debate clearly stated that it is a violaton of the BLP policy. Please do not stop editing or creating aricles.Consider reading over some of wikipedia's policies to get an idea on what is right and what is wrong on wikipedia. Regards,¤~IslaamMaged126 13:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Talk page for templates relating to pagan topics

Hello there Toussaint, I'm aware that at least five different templates have recently been produced and added to pages within this general area. I'm a bit concerned that this profusion has taken place without much discussion from editors who work on these articles, and I'd suggest that this should be discussed centrally so that there is a degree of uniformity in articles within the same family. I'm writing to you because I know you have been involved with these articles quite closely. If you would like to join this discussion, please do not reply here, but go instead to the talk page I have set up for this purpose. Of course if you want to have a 1:1 discussion about this, then please do reply here or on my own talk page. Many thanks! Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 00:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

James Brown template

Why is the bulk of Template:James Brown filled with links to Jimi Hendrix related articles? If the template is not ready to use yet (I see it has no page links) you should remove it from Category:James Brown and move it to a user subpage. InnocuousPseudonym (talk) 04:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)